Hello Bram, You wrote: > add collaborative editing: changes made to a buffer show up in another Vim in a second
I'd like to ask for some clarifications. Clarification about perceived behaviour, not about implementation: 1. "two-way collaboration" or "one-way collaboration" ? Vim instance B attaches to instance A for collaboration on file F. Then B absorbs (and shows) changes to F made by A, right ? Does it automatically work the opposite way ? That is, when B's user makes changes, will A also show these changes so that they always stay in sync ? Which operation mode will be the basic mode ? The two-way or the one-way ? Do we allow both modes of operation ? In two-way collab, two swapfiles file will coexist for the same edited file, right ? 2. Relation of "collaborative editing" to "client-server" Does "collaborative editing" *require* client-server ? Can "collaborative editing" work *without* client-server ? I see this item as matter of requirements, not nevessarily as matter of implementation. 3. We want to allow more than two Vims atached to the collaboration group, correct ? (N-way collaboration). Is the collaboration group "symmetric" (every instance plays identical role; absorbs changes of all others, can make changes which all others absorb) ? Or it has one "central" instance which has special role in the group ? (say, only "central" instance makes changes; all other instances cannot make their own changes; peripheral instances absorb only changes of the "central" instance). 4. You see the simple implementation of collaboration as vim-B reading swapfile of vim-A, correct ? Does it lend itself to two-way collaboration ? To the N-way collaboration ? Yakov --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
